Wood heel



A. B. GEORGE.

WOOD HEEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.26, 1919.

1,356,861. v Patented 00. 25,1920.

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ALBERT B. GEORGE, or HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

woon HEEL.-

Application filed December as, 1919. Serial No.

T 0 all whom it may concern: i

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. Gnonon, a citizen of the United States,residing at Haverhill, in the county of Essex andState of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in Wood Heels, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a wood heel of the Louis Quinze type, and hasfor its object to provide improved means for strengthening the heel toprevent the attenuated body thereof from cracking transversely betweenthe heel seat and tread ends, and at the same time to enable a fastenerfor the usual leather top lift to be securely engaged with the heel.

To these and other related ends the invention consists in theimprovements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompan ing drawings forming a part of this specifi cation,

Figure 1 is a sectional view of an unfinished wood heel embodyin theinvention, the tread end of the bee being provided with the usualsurplus portion, permittingthe formation of a top lift face by the usualgrading operation.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a graded heel provided with a top lift. 1

Fig. S-is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Figs. 4'aIlCl 5 are side views showing different constructions of thereinforcing dowel. v

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the tube shown by Fig. 5.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of thefigures.

In the rawings, 12 represents the heel. body, usua ly made from a singlepiece of wood, and originally formed with an extension at its tread endadapted to be truncated by a saw to form the seat 13 for the leather toplift 14. The extension may-be truncated in the plane indicated by theline m .r, or in the plane indicated by the line 3 z, or in variousintermediate planes, to gradethe heel in accordance with the usualpractice.

The body is provided with a dowel socket 15, exten ing through theextension and nearly to the heel seat end of the body.

16 represents a reinforcing dowel formed by a metal tube, and having aclose driving fit in the socket 15, thedowel being provided at its innerend portion with an in-' ternal abutment for a driving tool. As

Specification of Letters Patent.

'ment enables't-he dowel to Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

shown by Figs. 1, 2 and 4, the abutment is at the extreme inner end ofthe dowel,

and may be formed by ears 17, provided on the sheet metal blank of whichthe dowel 1s Inade, and bent inwardly to bear on a driving rod insertedin the dowel. As shown by Figs. 5 and 6, the abutment is formed by abead 18, near the inner end of the dowel. The sheet metal blank may beso formed that its opposed longitudinal edges have a winding form, asshown at 19, Fig. 4. Said edges may have a straight form, as shown at20, Fig. 5. Theabutbe driven in until its inner end bottoms on the innerend of the socket 15.

The length of the dowel is such that its outer end is above any plane onwhich the body is to be truncated, so that the dowel does not interferewith the truncating saw.

21 represents a non-metallic core preferably of wood, having a closedriving fit in the dowel, andfinserted therein as far as the abutment.The outer end of said core projects sufliciently to be truncated withthe body extension, so that when the heel is graded, the outer end ofthe core forms a part of the top lift seat.

e core is adapted to receive the shank.

of a fastener 22 driven through the top lift 14, said fastener bein ascrew, or a nail.

The tubular meta from cracking between its heel seat and top lift ends.Said dowel also .constitutes a holder for the core 21, the latterconstituting a means for anchoring the fastener 22. The core alsoreinforces the tubular dowel.

The reinforcing dowel may be non-Inetallic, and made from materialhaving suitable tensile strength, such as compressed vulcanized fiber. Atube of such material supported internally by the core 21, constidowelso reinforces the heel body that the latter is prevented a top liftfastener.

2. An incomplete Wood heel comprising a body having an extension at itstread end, adapted to be truncated to form the top lift seat of a gradedheel, the body being provided with a dowel socket extending through andabove said extension, a reinforcing dowel composed of a tube driven intosaid socket, and a penetrable core driven into said tube, and adapted tobe truncated with the extension, to form a part of the top lift seat,and to engage a top lift fastener; J

3. An incomplete Wood heel comprisin a body having an extension at itstread en adapted to be truncated to form the top lift seat of a gradedheel, the body being provided with a dowel socket extending through andabove said extension, a reinforcing doWel composed of a metal tubedriven into said socket and having its outer end located above saidextension to permit the truncation of the extension b a saw cut, and anon metallic penetrable core driven into and projecting from said tube,

signature.

- ALBERT B. GEORGE.

